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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
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Dear diary, on Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 11:06:03PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>=20
> >> =A0* git-rev-list: --stdin to feed list of <commits>; it is not cl=
ear from=20
> >> =A0 =A0the manpage if one can use ^<commit>, and commit related op=
tions
> >> =A0 =A0and shortcuts like --not, <commit>..<commit>, <commit>...<c=
ommit>
> >> =A0* git-pack-objects: --revs to provide arguments to rev-list fro=
m stdin,
> >> =A0 =A0instead of list of objects. UNDOCUMENTED.
> >=20
> > Time spent whining about it is better spent finding it out
> > yourself (UTSL) and writing it I suspect. =A0You'll learn how
> > things actually work while doing so ;-).
>=20
> I still think it is better, easier and faster for someone who makes a=
 new
> feature to document it too.

Especially since we _DON'T_ have good track record in other people
quickly documenting newly introduced undocumented features.

--=20
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise.
Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam